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 Artist's arttributes:
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Abstract Expressionism |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 68 |
| United Kingdom | 6 |
| Germany | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Nancy Hoffman Gallery, USA |
7 |
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ACME Fine Art & Design, USA |
4 |
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ACME Fine Art, USA |
4 |
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1900 Born in Biała Podlaska, Woj. Lublin (PL)
1913 Jack Tworkov immigrated to the United States to live in New York
1925 he attended classes for drawing at the "Art Students League, New York"
The artist was strongly influenced by Picasso and Cèzanne and devoted to the special structure in the work of these artists.
1935 - 1941 he worked for the WPA, Federal Art Project, where he met Willem de Kooning.
since 1941 Selected Group exhibitions:
1941 Two Hundred Americam Watercolors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1958 The New American Painting is shown in Eight European Countries, International, Program of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, travelling exhibiton: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Galleria Civica d-Arte Moderne, Milan, Italy; Museo Nacional de Arte Contempraneo, Madrid, Spain; Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Berlin, Germany; Stediljk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherland; a.o.
1976 The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of Americ, 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
1949 Tworkov got a member of "The Club" and the "New York School" and was teaching at the "Black Mountain College" in North Carolina. In the middle of the 50s he worked as a professor at the "Yales School of Arts and Architecture"
since 1961 Selected Solo exhibitions:
1961 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
1964 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1976 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1982 Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1963 - 1969 the artist was Chairman of the Art Department, Yale University.
1982 Died in Provincetown, MA (US)
| | Public exhibitions 83
Solo shows 46
2009
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| Jack Tworkov: Against Extremes/Five Decades - UBS Art Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jack Tworkov: Women - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2008
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| Jack Tworkov : The Late Painzings - ACME Fine Art & Design, Boston, MA |
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| Jack Tworkov - ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA |
2007
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| Jack Tworkov - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY |
2006
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| Jack Tworkov - Early Paintings and Works on Paper - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2002
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| Jack Tworkov - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY |
2000
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| Jack Tworkov - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Jack Tworkov - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY |
1994
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| Jack Tworkov - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Jack Tworkov,1935-1982: An Abstract Expressionist Inventing Form - McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA |
1992
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| Jack Tworkov, Works on Paper: Oil, Pastel and Color Pencil - - André Emmerich Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
1991
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| Jack Tworkov: Paintings from 1930 to 1981 - - André Emmerich Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
1990
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| BIG Paintings - - André Emmerich Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
1987
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| Jack Tworkov: Paintings, 1928-1982 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Jack Tworkov: Works on Paper: A Survey - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Paintings and Works on Paper from the 1970’s - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Jack Tworkov: Paintings and Works on Paper 1978-1982 - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Jack Tworkov: Works on Paper, 1933-1982 - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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| Jack Tworkov: Fifteen Years of Painting - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Jack Tworkov: Works on Paper, 1933-1982 - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1980
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| Jack Tworkov - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
1979
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| Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1950-78 - Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1950-78 - Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1950-78 - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
1977
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| New Work by Jack Tworkov - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1975
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| Jack Tworkov, 75th Birthday Exhibition - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1974
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| Jack Tworkov: Recent Paintings - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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| Jack Tworkov - Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City, NY |
1971
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| Jack Tworkov: Recent Paintings - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1965
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| Jack Tworkov - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| Jack Tworkov: A Retrospective Exhibition - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1964
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| Jack Tworkov: A Retrospective Exhibition - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1963
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| Recent Paintings by Jack Tworkov - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| Jack Tworkov - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY |
1961
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| Jack Tworkov - Newcomb Art Gallery , New Orleans, LA |
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| Jack Tworkov - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY |
1959
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| Tworkov - - Stable Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1970) |
1958
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| Tworkov: Exhibition of Drawings - - Stable Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1970) |
1957
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| Paintings by Jack Tworkov - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Tworkov: Exhibition of Paintings - - Stable Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1970) |
1952
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| Jack Tworkov - - Charles Egan Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1972) |
1949
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| Jack Tworkov - - Charles Egan Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1972) |
1948
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| Paintings by Jack Tworkov - The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
1947
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| Jack Tworkov: Still Life’s - - Charles Egan Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1972) |
1939
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| Jack Tworkov: Painting - ACA Galleries, New York City, NY |
Group shows 37
2009
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| Groupings - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
2008
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| Works on Paper - ACME Fine Art & Design, Boston, MA |
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| Works on Paper - ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA |
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| Summer Salon 2008 - ACME Fine Art & Design, Boston, MA |
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| Summer Salon 2008 - ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA |
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| New York School - Robert Sandelson, London (England) |
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| Raymond Hendler and artists from his ‘avant garde’ Circle - Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Drawings II - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968 - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism - Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| Figuratively Speaking - ACME Fine Art & Design, Boston, MA |
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| Figuratively Speaking - ACME Fine Art, Boston, MA |
2006
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| Black Mountain College - Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| The New Landscape / The New Still Life - Soutine and Modern Art - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
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| Black Mountain College: Its Time and Place - Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC |
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| Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
2005
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| Ecole de New York - Expressionnisme Abstrait - oeuvres sur papier - MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice |
2004
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| The Intimate Collaboration - Twenty-Five Years of Teaberry Press - Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA |
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| Selection of the Gallery - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
2003
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| Pairings - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2002
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| "New York School" - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Perspectives II: Five Decades of Seminal Work - Kouros Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY |
1996
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| Group Exhibition - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1971
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| Highlights of the 1970-71 Art Season - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
1967
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| 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1966
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| Society for Contemporary Art 26th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1962
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| 65th Annual American Exhibition - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1961
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| The Ben Heller Collection of Paintings of the School of New York - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1959
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| 9th Street Art Exhibition - - 9th Street Art Exhibition, New York City, NY (closed, 1951) |
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| The New American Painting - Tate Britain, London (England) |
1958
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| The New American Painting - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| Personal Contacts: A Decade of Contemporary Drawings, 1948–1958 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The New American Painting - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
| Dealer Directory 6 |
Germany
| | American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
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USA
| | Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY
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| | Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, New York City, NY
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| | Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
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Public collections 40
United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
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| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
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| | The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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| | Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
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| | Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI
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| | Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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| | Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
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| | Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
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| | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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| | MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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| | Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
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| | Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
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| | Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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| | Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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| | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC
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| | The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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Catalogs
| | Yearbook 2000/2001- American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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